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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1947
Page
6
The Compass prints rosters for Coronado Scouting units including Troop 75 with 24 named members and leaders, Troop 141, and Sea Scout Ship 75. Troop 35 roster will appear next week. Cub Pack 75 lists many youths and leaders.
Norman Webb, assistant scoutmaster of Coronado Troop 75, earned the Louis Millen Award for 36 months of efficiency in local scouting. A Coronado native and 1944 Coronado High School graduate, Webb joined Scouting in 1938 and earned 38 merit badges plus 3 Eagle Palms. He served in the Navy, studied at San Diego State College, and hopes to pursue chemical research after four years.
A roster of individuals including Richard Vance Tommy Hains Tommy Keck John Fitzgerald Charles Miller John Reynoldson John Laa Glenn Cox Gene Adams Tommy Fullerton Bill Stuart Robin Dern Michael Muirhead Normand Silverman Nathan Haines Carter Lee Nash Billy Gallaher Ronnie Knudson Grant Olsen Poweld Tone George Murdock Lowel Grim William McCormick Ward Casey Darrow Henry Gary Kellett Keneth Russell Barry Ashworth John Summers Den Mathers and several Mr and Mrs entries appear in a community notice or obituary-like list. The document presents no explicit event date or context beyond a sequence of names and formal addresses Mrs. entries.
M Henry Cub Pack 115 lists Den I Den II and Den III leadership. Den I Den Mother Vicki Castle Den Dads Frank Castle David Castle Teddy Knox Laverne Maxwell Dee Pollock Jimmy Sparr George Hinson John Hinson. Den II Den Mother Cleo London Charlie Bazile James Cavanaugh Jeff Fischer Walter Hale Neil Hennis Paul London Edward Petrae Charles Walker Alton White. Den III Den Mother Winona Whiteside George Bunker Dale Burrington Wayne Burrington Eugene Current Bennie Edep Charles Pollock Michael Seyboth Dick Stanford Jackie Tolle.
A string of jokes unfolds from a luncheon speaker to a puzzled chairman and a boastful banker, with an Indian in the sun asking Why repeatedly about work money and a golf trap exchange. A girl asks for constant thoughts while a lover doubts a pennant win.
An amused exchange unfolds as he asks to share coffee while she playfully suggests he go first, hinting at a lighthearted moment between two people.
Coronado Boy Scout troops meet weekly with Troop 75 on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the high school gymnasium Social Room. Troop 35 meets Mondays at 7 p.m. Troop 115 meets Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Community Building Housing Project. Troop 141 meets Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Sacred Heart Parish Hall.
The San Diego City and County Convention Bureau will hold its annual members dinner on Wednesday February 19 in the Gold Room at the U S Grant Hotel at 6 30 PM. Coronado bureau members listed include Lucy Jiron Joe Jiron Wallace Anderson Robert Jiron Jerry Miller Peter Pence Joe Pumphrey Jerry Sykes Saverio Tangeri James Russ and Roger Hicks.
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